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Area elected officials have long sought to replace the outdated Rice Street bridge over Interstate 694. With state funding secured in 2017, work to rebuild the interchange is slated to begin in spring 2019.

Residents of the north suburbs got a break this year from major construction projects on the area’s biggest east/west corridors, though another one is coming up for 2019.

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Pat Whalen, owner of the former PJW Automotive in New Brighton, which closed for good Oct. 31.

Though PJW Automotive had serviced its last car two weeks prior, the former New Brighton auto shop’s owner, Pat Whelan, was still there Nov. 14, breaking down the business he’d spent half his life building up.

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Construction of a 68-unit senior housing rental complex at 1750 Larpenteur Ave. is set to begin Dec. 15. The Falcon Heights City Council approved plans for the building Nov. 14.

The Falcon Heights City Council was happy to give final approval Nov. 14 to a senior housing complex that will be built on Larpenteur Avenue. It should be complete in a year.

Maplewood emergency services honored for saving life

Concluding investigations of an international sex trafficking organization’s Minnesota branch that started in 2016, the final defendant was sentenced to 12 years in Washington County District Court Nov. 8.

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With development work stalling on the former Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant site in Arden Hills, the city revealed at a Nov. 14 public hearing plans for a civic site at the development that’s intended to be a community gathering space.